The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1887-12-09

AycSha did not talk freely, as shc usually
did. Presently, however, she tnforrned
Leo that she had arranged a dance t6ns
night for our amusement. I WINS aston
ished to hear this, as I fancied that the
Amahagger were much too gloomy o 1olx
to indulge in any such frivolity; but, a.
will presently more clearly appenx, ~
TUNED out that an Amnhaggcr dance had
little in common with such fantastic tes-
tivities In other countries, savage or civil
lized.
Then, as we werc about to withdraw,
she suggested that Leo might like to see'
some of the wonders of the caves, aid a.
he glndly assented to this, thither We dc.
parted, accompanied by Job and Billali.
To describe our visit would only be to re-
peat q great deal of what I have already
said. Tho tombs we entered were indeed
different, for the whole rock was @ honey.
comb Of sepulchrcs, but the contents were
nearly always tho same. Afterward We
visited the pyramid Of bones that had
haunted my dreams on the previous Etghtr
and from thence went down o long pas
sage to one of the great vaults occupied by
the bodies Of the poor citizens OF Imperial
Kor. These bodies were not nearly 30
we'll preserved, and many Of them had no
linen covering on them, also they were
buried from five hundred to n thousand
in G single large vault, the corpses In many
instances being thickly piled one upon an.
other, like a heap of slain.
Leo was of course intensely interested in
this s%tupendous and unequaled sight.
which was, indeed, enough to awake all
the Imagination q maj had in him into the
most active life. But to poor Job 1t did
not prove attractive. His nerves-already
seriously shaken by what he had under.
gone since we had arrived in this terrible
country-were, as may be imagined, still
further disturbed by the spectacle OF sn
this mass Of departed humanity, whose
forms still remnincd perfect before his
eyes, though their voices were forever lost
in the eternal silence Of the tomb. Nor
was he comforted when old Billali, by way
of soothing his evident agitation, informed
him that he should not be frightened of
these dead things, as 20 would soon be Like
them himself.
"There's q nice thing to say Of a man.
SIR" he calculated. when I translated thu
little remark, "but there, what can one
| expect of an old man-cattng savage? Not
| but what l dare say he's right" and Job
sighed.
When we had finished inspecting the
caves, we returned and had our meal, for
It was now past fou in the afternoon, and
we needed some food and rest, especially
Leo. AT six o'clock we all, ,:ncluding Job,
waiCed on Ayesha, who set to work to ter
rsfy our poor servant still further by show.
ing him PICTURES on the pool of water In
the font-like vessel. She leaynt IRON me
that he was II of seventeen children, and
q bid him think of all his brothers and
- nr no .manv nf '!,am - .,~t'
gathered together in his fathers cottage,
Then she told him to look in the water,
| and there. reflected from its Silly surface,
| was that deal scene OF many years gone
by, as it was recalled to our poer servants
brain. Some OF The faces were clear enough
but some wcsc II ere blurs and splotches,
or with one feature grossly exaggerated;
the fact being that, in these instances, job
had been unable to recall tho exact ap.
peavancc CT the Individuals. or rcmcmbered
them only by " Z eculiarity of b is tribe, md
the water could only reflect what he saw
with his minds eye. For it must be re-.
men,bered that She's power in this matter
was strictly lin tied; She could apparently,
except in very rare instances, only photo
graph upon the water what was actually
in the mind OF some one present, and theu
only by his viii.
But IL she was personally acquainted
with q locality, she could, as in the case OF
ourselves n the wlale-boat, throw its
reflection upon the water, and also the re-
Election of anything extrancous that was
passing thern at the time. This power,
however, did not extend to the minds of
others. For instance, she could show me
the interior of M, college chapel rs 1 re.
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